Wednesday 23 December 2009

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Dollar Drops From Almost Three-Month High on Housing Decline

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  • 12/23/2009 12:28 PM

Oil Rises to Two-Week High on Larger-Than-Forecast Supply Drop

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  • 12/23/2009 12:25 PM

Gold edges higher as dollar weakens after income data

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  • 12/23/2009 09:19 AM

U.S. Stocks Fluctuate as Commodities Rise, Home Depot Declines


Quotable

“We’re going to have a currency crisis, probably this fall or the fall of 2010.  It’s been building up for a long time. We’ve had a huge rally in the dollar, an artificial rally in the dollar, so it’s time for a currency crisis.”  Jim Rogers comments to Bloomberg News, May 11, 2009


Commentary

Credit Bubble Bulletin

by Doug Noland | Dec 18

Just the Facts

The dollar has mustered a decent rally, yet global risk markets for the most part remain resilient.  Perhaps there's more to global reflationary dynamics than just our weak currency.

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The Bear's Lair

by Martin Hutchinson | Dec 21

Back towards partnerships

It must surely have become obvious from both the catastrophes of 2008 and the bumper profits of 2009 that the investment banking/trading business, whether through independent behemoths or within even larger commercial banks, simply isn't working.

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Featured Commentary

by Peter Souleles | Nov 24

One generation to regeneration

I dare say that everyone between the ages of 25 and death is living with regrets about the past, anxieties about the future or both.

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Guest Commentary

by Gregg Jahnke | Dec 8

Light holiday reading and the future of Western civilization

There is no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to read the two chronicles of our recent financial disaster, Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail" and Charles Gasparino's "The Sellout."

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